Animal and fowl catcher.



W. G. TARRANT.

ANIMAL AND FOWL GATGHBR. APPLICATION FILED AUG.27,1907,

Patented Oct. 13, 1908.

WILLIAM G. TARRANT, OF VERSAILLES, ILLINOIS".

I ANIMAL-AND FOWL CATCHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 13, 1908.

Application filed August 27; 1907 Serial No 390,301

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ('Zl'. TARRANT, citizen of the Uuited States, residing at Versailles, in the county of Brown and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful lmproven'ients.in Animal and Fowl Catchers. of which the following a spccification}.

This invention relates to animal catchers, and re )articularly to hand catchers, and

has for its object to provide a catcher which may used in connection with stock or poultry raising, and by which animals and fowls may be quickly and easily caught. 15. Another object is to provide a catcher which will be free from complicated parts, which will be eiitremely simple andwhich, as an'art-icle of manufacture, may be produced at a low figure.

Other objects and advai'itages will be apparent from the following description and it will be understood that changes in the specific structure shown and described may be made 'withinthe see c of the claim without dcpartin from the spiritof the invention.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views, Figure l is a view showing the catcher in use to catch a fowl; Fig. 2 is a view showing the catcher looped around the neck of an animal Fig. 3 is an elevational view.

Referring now to the drawings, the precnt catcher is formed of astiil metallic foil 5 havin one end bentlaterally as shown at 6 and t en rearwardly,vas shown at 7. The rearwardly bent portion has an inwardly directed kink 8 extending toward the main portion of the rod 5 to form a loop 9, and rcarwardly of the kink 8. the portion 7 is curved outwrirdlyQas shown at 10 to present a convex face toward the main portion of the rod 5. There is thus formed a rearwardly and outwardly curved hook at one end of the rod. The opposite end of the rod from the hook is bent upon itself to form a lon itudinally extending elongated loop ,12, w iich is thus formedintegral with the rod.

The present catcher may be used either to catch animals or fowls by engaging the hook adjacent to the loop. lhe forward portion of the latter forming snilahlc grip and the engagement of the arm through the loop arting as a siniport tor the weight. of the rod. When used in the last mentioned1'1mln'1cr.the

rod may be grasped hr the hooked portion and the loop '12- bronght over the animals head ak which the rod may he turned to bring the animals head transversely of the loop so that it. may not he disengaged there- 't'ron'i. It will be uni'lcrs rod that the kink 8 which forms the loop engaged by the leg; of the animal when the hook is engaged theru i h, and. that the portion 7 is thus moved outwardly to allow the animals leg to pass into the loop f within which it is held, without serious injury.

From the foregoing. it. will. be secnthat the present invention provides an animal catcher of cheap and simple nature which may be imnmfactnred and sold at a very low figure and which may be used to catch anin'ials in different manners, the parts facilh tilting the-5e two operations coacting with each other in either opt-fiction.

Vvhat claiincd-is:

As an article of manl'ifacture, a catching device comprising a metallic rod bent upon itself at one end to form a leg engaging hook. said rod having its opposite end portion hunt. to form an elongated longitudinally extending loop arranged for engagement at times with the neck of an animal and at times to receive therethrough the arm of'thc user of the device to facilitate the manipulation thereof.

' .ln testimony whereof I aflix my signature,

in presence of two witnesses.

WVILLL-XM G. TARRANT. 

